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01:23:38:00 - 01:24:27:00
43 Giant and Cubs at the Polo grounds. Pan of Polo grounds, October 8, 1908. Fans with sunbrella. Stands and advertising signs. Mordecai Brown. Christy Mathewson (in dark circle). Managers, Frank Chance of the Cubs and John McGraw of Giants. Cubs defeat Detroit in the World Series.

01:24:30:00 - 01:26:41:00
45 Baseball Heroes - Cobb, Wagner, and Johnson. Ty Cobb batting and in front of dugout. Cobb honored by fans in Detroit in 1927 after he was traded to the Athletics. With Connie Mack, Cobb entertains Thomas Edison and almost has his head knocked off by Edison's line drive. Honus Wagner on coaching line. Wagner in action. Walter Johnson warming up. CU Johnson. Washington fans give Johnson a day in 1927, receives set of silver. Johnson as manager of the Senators.

01:26:44:00 - 01:32:00:00
47 Baseball and the Presidents - Part 1. The Wilson Era- Wilson throws out first ball. John McGraw of the New York Giants. 1920 World Series. Babe Ruth warming up underhand. Mgrs. Robinson and Speaker. Burleigh Grimes of the Robins. Indians score runs. Dense crowds leaving the park.

The Harding Era- Harding with Babe Ruth. Judge Landis. Crowds and animated scoreboard, very popular this era.

The Roosevelt Era- FRD (with Garner and Griffith) throws out first ball. Judge Landis. Will Rogers and Henry Ford, two loyal fans. 1934 All star game, Carl Hubbell strikes out American league greats. John Vandermeer pitches second consecutive no-hit game in 1938.

The Truman Era- Truman throws out first ball.

The Eisenhower Era- Ike throws out first ball.

01:32:09:00 - 01:33:44:00
50 San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Trolley, carriages, people in streets. Smoke, fire engine. People running. Collapsed side of building. Wreckage of house. People running. Navy and Marines bring in food, clothing and medical supplies. Mayor commandeers Army to guard banks against looting.

01:41:17:00 - 01:43:59:00
118 Olympic games in Belgium-1920. Air shots of Olympic grounds. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, to and past camera, CU of King Albert. Frank Loomis wins 400 meter hurdles for USA CU of Loomis. Guillemot of France wins 5,000 meter race: Nurmi of Finland is second. King Albert congratulates Guillemot. Britain wins tug-of-war event. The 10,000 meter walk is won by Ugo Frigerio of Italy. Dick Landon of the U.S.A. wins high-jump. CU of Landon. American soldiers in stands, American flag and members of Olympic committee.

01:44:06:00 - 01:45:11:00
173 Floyd Collins cave tragedy-Kentucky. Site of Sand Cavecave. People watching. National guardsmen, Red Cross station and nurses. Various shots of crowds watching. Newspaper man William Burke Miller wiggles into hole to interview Collins. Deceased when finally rescued. His body in a silver casket was placed on exhibition in Crystal Cave.

01:53:05:00 - 01:56:27:00
211 World Series 1927. Game One: Crowd, Managers Donie Bush of the Pirates and Miller Huggins of the Yankees. Babe Ruth, Commissioner Landis, Mayor Walker of New York City, and Gov. Fisher of PA. Waite Hoyt pitches and unidentified batter hits ball. Lou Gerhig of Yankees hits triple which scores Babe Ruth. Shots of game in progress.

Game three: Starting pitchers Pennock and Meadows, the Waner Brothers of the Pirates, Admiral Plunkett throws out first ball, pan crowd in stands. Coombs leads off with a single for the Yankees, Gerhig triples to drive in two runs, but Lou is out trying to stretch hit into home run. Babe Ruth hits a home run for Yankees, crowd, CU of Babe Ruth, crowd after game.

02:05:39:00 - 02:09:35:00
285 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932. The Los Angeles coliseum, pan of crowd, V.P. Curtis and others enter and wave to crowd. V.P. Curtis opens the games. (sound) Parade of nations is led by Greece, the US team. Dorothy Poynton of US does running swan dive (wins platform diving title), crowd, pool, Miss Poynton speaks. Harold Smith wins men's platform diving title for USA, crowd. In women's 100 meter freestyle, Helene Madison of US wins: 1:06:8, a new Olympic record. Miss Madison speaks. Michael Galitzen of US wins the men's springboard dive with 161.38 points. First he does a full gainer, then a two and a half forward somersault. Marathon race begins. Runners leave stadium, running through Los Angeles streets. At 19 mi. mark in 26 mi. race they have lunch. Back in the stadium the winner Juan Zabala of Argentina in record time of 2:31:36.

02:09:44:00 - 02:10:54:00
John Dillinger Hunted. Dillinger and men behind bars, long shot of the Crown Point, Indiana jail from which Dillinger escaped. The alley along which he fled. Dillinger took the Sheriff's car from a nearby garage, riding away with the garage man as hostage. Two cars seen leaving the garage. CU of garageman, Edwin Sager. LS hideout where Dillinger was captured in January, army of policemen surrounding Dillinger in car in Chicago. CU of Dillinger and sheriff Lillian Holley, CU Dillinger. Dillinger behind bars.

02:12:48:00 - 02:14:51:00
355 Winter Olympics in 1938. Elevation shot of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Olympic posters in street of town. Train arriving. Olympic visitors get off train. Two shots of town streets. Inside the Olympic stadium, snow falling heavily. Fans. Chancellor Hitler shaking hands. Teams parading. Team in white gives Olympic salute (similar to Nazi salute). Marching feet. Teams parading. Hitler reviewing teams of 28 nations. Austrian types parading. Hitler. US team parading. Olympic torch. Teams playing hockey, no specific identification, in hockey the British team finished first, Canada second and the US third, Britain was accused of using a ringer on their team. General view of ski area. Various scenes of unidentified skiers in action.

02:15:00:00 - 02:17:18:00
356 Berlin Olympics open in 1936. Torch runner past camera, one of the runners from seven countries who carried torch from Greece to Germany for Berlin Olympics. Torch runner to camera. HS crowd at Lustgarten. Pan crowd. HS people lining up. Torch bearer. Lighted bowl. Flags of 52 competing nations. Olympic stadium. Chancellor Hitler arrives with group. Crowd saluting. American team arrives, they salute with straw hat held to heart. CU American flag. American flag raised. Crowd saluting (Olympic salute). Teams lined up on field. Three thousand white pigeons released. Torch bearer up stadium steps and lights stadium flame. MS and CU of stadium flame which will burn for the duration of the 16 day Olympiad.

02:17:24:00 - 02:20:14:00
Action at the Berlin Olympics. LS stadium. Crowds entering stadium. Jesse Owens ready for start of 200. The 200 meter dash. Crowd. Owens walks to camera. View of the top three winners saluting, Owens in center. Shots of two pole vaulters going over bar. Slow motion of Earle Meadows of USA, the winner, over bar, lands. Racers ready for start of hurdles. The hurdles race won by Forrest Towns of USA. Semi-CU of Little Jack Lovelock of New Zealand getting ready for the 1,500 meter race, the Olympic mile. Two shots of Glenn Cunningham of USA preparing for same race. The race, won by Lovelock. CU

Lovelock putting on sweater. Lovelock and Cunningham shaking hands. Men poised for start and then the start of the 400 meter race. Race is won by Archie Williams of USA, in close finish with Godfrey Brown of Great Britain. LS Olympic pool. Dick Degener of USA diving, wins the springboard diving event. Al Green does back dive, he is one of runners up (also USA). Dive in slow motion by Marshall Wayne of USA who finishes second to Degener. LS of pool.

02:20:22:00 - 02:23:28:00
366 World Series 1936. First game, four players including Yankee rookie star Joe Di Maggio(second from left) turn around to reveal numbers 1936. The Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia root for both New York teams. George Raft, Babe Ruth and ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker are at the game (sound). Carl Hubbell pitches and George Selkirk hits home run for Yankees (3rd inning). Red Ruffing pitches and Dick Bartell of Giants hits homer (6th inning). Fans take cover from strong rain, there is question of the game continuing. 8th inning, Ruffing pitches, Travis Jackson hits sacrifice fly which allows Mel Ott to tag up and score from third base. 8th Inning, Carl Hubbell hits ground ball to Lazzeri who misses it, Mancuso rounds third base and comes in to score, Bill Dickey misses the relay to the plate allowing Whitehead to also score as the Giants wrap up game 6-1.

02:25:04:00 - 02:26:50:00
406 England's King and Queen visit US. Motorcycle escort lead car with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth into New York World's Fair grounds. King and Queen walk around fair, crowds, King waves. King and queen pass exhibitions. King and Queen wave from balcony. King and Queen with Mr. And Mrs., Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park.